Apparition Room

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Dana Claxton, still from "Sa (1994)"

Courtesy of the artist.

Western Front is pleased to present Apparition Room, an immersive group exhibition curated by Lee Plested that brings to life digitized artworks from Western Front’s archives to celebrate its 50th year. Set within a scenography of lighting, props, and furnishings by artist Nile Koetting, the exhibition space evokes the cool aesthetics of the waiting room to welcome visitors to slow down, stay a while, and engage in contemplation. Performance documentation, and video and sound artworks, play across an arrangement of screens, projections, and speakers showing 50 years of art by over 50 artists experienced on these premises as four hour and a half long programs, which unfold across the exhibition’s duration.

To ground the experience in the body and material world, tours for up to four people are available by registration each Thursday and Saturday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. On these occasions, a host guides visitors through a single program, augmenting their experience with a choreography of gesture, script, and tea service featuring brews devised by artists Bryan Mulvihill and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss, and ceramic ware by local potters.

Through pairing advancements in media technology, with contemporary approaches to the age-old traditions of tea, ceramics, and hosting, Apparition Room creates an environment to reflect upon Western Front’s longstanding commitment to artistic experimentation across media and the ethos of art as life.

Artists include Kathy Acker, Abbas Akhavan, Eleanor Antin, Joan La Barbara, Martin Bartlett, Rebecca Belmore, bill bissett, Maggie Boyd, Hank Bull, Nao Bustamante, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dana Claxton, Kate Craig, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jane Ellison, Robert Filliou, Coco Fusco, General Idea, Rana Hamadeh, Mona Hatoum, Michael Henry, Gordon Hutchens, Tari Ito, Charmian Johnson, Nile Koetting, Alison Knowles, Danny Kostyshin, Neil Leonard, Glenn Lewis, James Luna, Rita McKeough, Eric Metcalfe, Kate Metten, Michael Morris, Bryan Mulvihill, Antoni Muntadas, Gailan Ngan, Wayne Ngan, Judy Radul, Emily Sheppard, Corin Sworn, Vincent Trasov, Zainub Verjee, Laura Wee Lay Laq, Hildegard Westerkamp, Paul Wong, Cornelia Wyngaarden, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss.